Comic Strips

Even the tiniest semblance of power can go to a person’s head. You had $25 worth of merchandise in your hands, Karen. The store will be okay without you.

The right attitude.

In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here's a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it's just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.

For me, it's right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.

And they'll all be back next week, simply because it's the most convenient for them to drive to.

Sales are in the shitter, I'm afraid we're gonna have to let you go.

I don't care.

On the other hand, I did just tell a bunch of local places I will no longer be a customer because they advertise on PublicSquare.

So I guess I'm those people now.

When I was a teenager in the 90s I worked a local, Chicago-area chain fast food job, as ya do. One customer was mad that his ribs were taking a while so he came up to tell at the cashier. The General Manager was a older Chicagoan with a Mike Ditka mustache, and came out of the office right behind the cashiers and yelled right back, mad that somebody was yelling at his employees.

The guy shouted that he'd take his business elsewhere and never come back, at which point the GM pointed at the line that stretched to the door and said something to the effect of "you see all these people? I don't need your business! Now get out of my store!" It was in the middle of the dinner rush, and it's still a popular chain.

We all really liked that GM before and especially after that. He was one of those "tough but fair" types, the kind of boss you could respect. Good guy.

The point is that yeah, go ahead and take your business elsewhere Karen. It literally makes no difference and nobody cares.

I agree with this with one exception - if you're in admin or clerical customer facing roles where the stuff you do is actually life changing for people.

I almost got deported because some cunt at the uni couldn't be arsed to send one email of a document she got by clicking one button for a whole year despite the fact I rang every day for like two months and visited the offices for a goddamn week.

Another example is healthcare. If you're some piece of shit receptionist who can do fuck all and instead of sympathising - and just trying at all - you act all smug about how you can't even do me the decency of telling me which fucking department I need to talk to when I can't get the result of a fucking piss test I need for life-changing surgery.

Surgery that I have been on a waiting list for for 7 years, surgery hat I have bad scheduled months ago that I have done everything for months ago, that's now in a week and all of that is now under threat of being postponed many more months because you can't fucking ring a phone number? Because you can't be arsed and you'll "let me know if there's anything further" in 15-30 working days? And you, despite working this job, can't possibly know how long it usually even takes? Literally refuse to even give an estimate?

I will make your day hell because I hate you - not just the company - but you as a human being, fuck you and find another fucking job, your failure in life is no excuse to fuck mine up too.

Especially when I know I'll come back tomorrow and someone with a fucking brain is going to sort it out for me, so it was never some "policy", it was you and your lack of effort when human lives are on the fucking line. Wouldn't piss on you if you was on fire, you living piece of evidence that some people are just plain inferior and why some people don't deserve welfare and security because they can't do anything unless you threaten them with not being able to eat the next fucking day.

God, sorry, all this shit was years ago but it boils my blood to this day that some fucknuggets could've destroyed my entire amazing life for literally no other reason than the fact they have no life worth living and choose to make everyone else's a living nightmare.

I think the pain will heal once all this shit is replaced by a nice LLM integration. And communism too, fuck capitalism and decay in public services.

Actually in a better world I'd gladly pay taxes so these actual fucking untermenschen stay home and rot or whatever it is they do, so the rest of us can get on with life. They already mooch off my taxes, the least they can do is get out of the fucking way.

Lol they're all old people

Companies I boycott:

Bank of America
5/3 Bank
Wells Fargo
McDonald's
Walmart
That corner gas station that never paid their invoice Planet Fitness
John Deere
Verizon
AT&T

Number of store employees I've told that I'm never coming back:

0

My absolute favorite response to these types of people is "can I get that in writing?"

ok, but how? (emotionally)

K

During my penance in food service in my earlier years, I worked for a while for what was literally the only pizza joint in town that had delivery. (This was well before all the food delivery apps and in fact in the pre-smartphone era.) When we would not accede to whatever ridiculous demand a customer was having a tantrum about and they threatened to never order here again, my boss would just say, "Okay, fine, see you next week."

He was usually right, too.

You'd be surprised. I've had people absolutely not listening to me in the past. It's not overly common, but definitely not unheard of.

People will literally get in my car expecting that I teach them to park then take them for their driving test after just a few lessons.

Customer service rep - idc.

Customer- stops frequenting the store.

Boss - "Welp, we're through, you're fired."

The thing is, either workers are powerless to change things, or just don’t care enough to be bothered by that threat.

Which is why I usually just smile and lodge formal complaints with the company as well as any regulatory body if the situation calls for it. Much more effective when it’s an actual punishment rather than an empty threat. I’ve gotten companies actual fines that way.